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Drivl.com | What code DOESNT do in real life that it does in the movies

Here is an article that dispells some of the myths of TV and Movies about programmers. If you believe that programmers can watch scrolling code, have to be teens or a few keystrokes will recover a blurred image, read ahead…

What code DOESNT do in real life that it does in the movies
Matthew Inman
Posted on 6/12/06 by Matthew Inman

Matt craps on a bunch of ridiculous ideas about programming and code that Hollywood cant seem to stay away from. Following up our article: Top 20 Hackers in Film History and Vibrants Top 10 Servers in the movies, I felt obligated to dispel some of the notions about programming that these movies endorse. I understand that Hollywood needs to dress things up to make them more entertaining, but in the case of programmers, code, and hackers theyve done more than dress things up - theyve morphed a little stuffed teddy bear into a cybernetic polar bear covered in christmas lights and phosphorescent hieroglyphics with a fog machine pumping rainbow smoke out of his ass. In other words, theyve layered a ridiculous amount of extravagance on top of something that in reality is very grounded.

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